Years Later, Nonfiction Cinema Makes and Breaks Our Mythology of 9/11

The most defining moments of our age often become separated from history. Wednesday will be the 12th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11. It has been over a decade, and yet we still have not entirely understood the way this most significant of 21st century moments fits into American history. Nor should we. With our current 24-hour media circus of immedia…